WORK: AYISE is works with different partners of development and these are either different local organizations or international organizations, this work camp will be at Bangwe weaving factory which is a company that only employees people living with disabilities.
With the effects of climate change rising it now difficult for the factory to have running water all the time, this is making life difficult for the people who work here, the factory has water toilets and when water is not running they become unusable therefore a need to have a pit latrine at this campus. The work in this camp will involve transporting brick from where they will be delivered to the building site, mixing sand and cement and the actual building, AYISE will employee one builder to provide technical support during the camp.
This is a chance to work with people who are leaving with disabilities as Bangwe weaving Factory is a unit of the Malawi council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) the factory was established in the year 1975 and was officially in 1976. The factory was initially open to train and employee people with disabilities in spinning and weaving craft. In 2000 MACOHA relocate three other workshops to Bangwe factory.
Bangwe Weaving factory is an accessible employment centre for persons with disabilities. The factory employees 140 people of whom 80% are persons with disabilities, the unit prides itself as the only dedicated employment centre for persons with disabilities in Malawi. Working at this factory will give both local and international volunteers an opportunity to positively interact and work with people leaving with disabilities.

LOCATION

LOCATION: The project will be located in Bangwe 15KM away from the Blantyre City Centre. The work / project site will be at the Bangwe Youth Centre which was built by AYISE and is still run by AYISE as well. AYISE is also located in the same community.
Volunteers will also be exposed to Blantyre City By night for two occasions

ACCOMMODATION

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: The volunteers will be accommodated at the AYISE guest house in Bangwe within the AYISE office campus and will be sleeping directly on the floors using portable mattresses that will be provided by AYISE. The volunteers will prepare their meals while at the work site. The kitchen at the guest house will be used to prepare such food in a rotation order during the evening. Volunteers are therefore encouraged to bring recipes from their home countries for purposes of cross-cultural understanding and general integration of people from a diverse background.

What to bring: A strong sleeping bag, working gloves, boots, family and friend’s pictures, any traditional dances or attire, National flags and any other thing one think may be of some help or can be shared with friends.

The activity will take place at Cape MaClear of the lake Malawi- Lake Malawi National park was declared a World Heritage Site largely for its aquatic diversity. Lake Malawi is the largest Rift Valley Lake in the Southern part of Africa. Lift Valley Lake is a lake that was formed naturally million of years ago due to the sinking or lapsing of the earth crust.
The camp will involve creating awareness -first among the National and International World Heritage Volunteers through a three day workshop on the importance of conserving World Heritage sites and the importance of Lake Malawi as a world heritage site. The Work camp will also involve training of local tour guides so that they include the world heritage importance of Cape Ma Clear in their interaction with international tourists. The third activity will involve sensitization of the community around the site of the need and importance in conserving the World Heritage sites. Then the project will concentrate on building a toilet so that the place becomes user friendly as its difficult to use this place without such a facility. The work will also involve some painting and fixing the entrance gate to the lake Malawi national park forest area.
Finally the project will help build synergies among actors involved in world heritage site management and use of which includes the Ministry of Tourism, National Parks and Wildlife, National Commission of UNESCO, Department of Youth, National Youth Council of Malawi and AYISE as the implementing agency, the site management institution and the communities.

LOCATION

Cape MaClear of the lake Malawi

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation: In youth Hostels around Cape Ma Clear. These hostels are small houses built to accommodate volunteers and some tourists. They have very basic tools and materials.
Food will be prepared by volunteers in a rota.

What to bring: A strong sleeping bag, working gloves, boots, family and friend’s pictures, any traditional dances or attire, National flags and any other thing one think may be of some help or can be shared with friends.

WORK: AYISE’s Bangwe Youth Centre facility was established in 2005 with support from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). The youth centre is one of the early initiatives that came to the mind of the founders of AYISE as a mechanism to address many of the problems the youth used to face and still face to this day. It is framed on the adage that an idle mind is the devils workshop. AYISE as an active youth movement thought of establishing the youth centre to created space for young people to be active in activities that enhance their welbeing and at the same time contributes to national development.
AYISE believes that while it is practically difficult to create employment for every youth, it is relatively easier to provide space where every young person will find an activity that suits their interests. AYISE further believes that lack of youth centres in an environment where unemployment is high would mean condeming young people to drug and substance abuse, sexual immorality leading to teenage pregnancies and HIV and AIDS, petty theft of items in public facilities and general vandalism.
We feel the youth centre also offers space to young people to develop healthy relationships as contrasted to relationships where the meeting places are dark corners, strategic road junctions or thick bushes. In an effort to confront these pressing issues, AYISE designed and constructed the Bangwe Youth Centre which contains a modern resource room capable of hosting up to 60 participants, an ICT Training Centre which offers training in computers an general ICT to the youth and adults who are working but did not have the opportunity to learn computers. In addition, the Centre also boosts a restaurant, summer huts, a pavilion, a library, a grass football pitch, and concrete surface netball, basketball and volleyball courts. The work will involve clearing the grass (bushes), planting flowers, grass and some ornamental and fruit trees at the youth centre. Volunteers interested in environmental issues are encouraged to apply for this project. It will be about beautifying the youth centre premises.
It will also involve maintaining the rubbish bins made of drums which were fixed at Bangwe Youth Centre two year ago and have since been damaged. There will be painting of the drums, mending the connection bolts and all the necessary maintenance work that may be required as well as installing the bins into the soil.

LOCATION

ACCOMMODATION

ACCOMODATION: Volunteers will sleep in the main Guest house which is located in the AYISE head Office campus. The volunteers will sleep on student beds with mattresses. And will use the facilities of the main guest house.

FOOD: The volunteers will prepare food by themselves in a rotation order. However, on some days, food may be prepared for the volunteers to carry as packed meals to be used for lunches. In the evenings, volunteers will prepare own meals. On the other hand, volunteer for this project will have a day trip to Mulanje Mountain where they will see the third largest mountain in Africa and be treated to some clubbing taking place in Blantyre city on one occasion.

What to bring: A strong sleeping bag, working gloves, boots, family and friend’s pictures, any traditional dances or attire, National flags and any other thing one think may be of some help or can be shared with friends.

The activity will take place at Cape MaClear of the lake Malawi- Lake Malawi National park was declared a World Heritage Site largely for its aquatic diversity. Lake Malawi is the largest Rift Valley Lake in the Southern part of Africa.

Lift Valley Lake is a lake that was formed naturally million of years ago due to the sinking or lapsing of the earth crust.

The camp will involve creating awareness –first among the National and International World Heritage Volunteers through a three day workshop on the importance of conserving World Heritage sites and the importance of Lake Malawi as a world heritage site.

The Work camp will also involve training of local tour guides so that they include the world heritage importance of Cape Ma Clear in their interaction with international tourists.

The third activity will involve sensitization of the community around the site of the need and importance in conserving the World Heritage sites.

Finally the project will help build synergies among actors involved in world heritage site management and use of which includes the Ministry of Tourism, National Parks and Wildlife, National Commission of UNESCO, Department of Youth, National Youth Council of Malawi and AYISE as the implementing agency, the site management institution and the communities.

LOCATION

ACCOMMODATION

In youth Hostels around Cape Ma Clear. These hostels are small houses built to accommodate volunteers and some tourists. They have very basic tools and materials.